The Power of the Placebo

Norman Coosins wrote a book called, I can't remember the name of the book. It was basically laughter therapy. What he did was he checked himself out of the hospital, checked into a hotel and had him bring all these back in the Paleolithic era. Men who walked in meeting Keynes walked out, came free. There seems to be a lot of conclusive evidence that most of the effects of SSRI inhibitors are actually coming from a placebo effect.

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